Windows 10's November Update Reset My Defaults Again
Microsoft's November Update for Windows 10 brought some genuinely good Start menu fixes, but it also quietly reset my default browser and PDF viewer for the second time in four months.
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One Week With the New Apple TV: The Remote Is the Whole Problem
A week of living with Apple's new $149 Apple TV shows solid hardware undercut by a glass Siri Remote that swipes and scrolls when you least want it to.
A Week With the New Apple TV, and Still No Prime Video
A week in with the new Apple TV: the setup is quick, the touch remote skips ahead when you don't want it to, and there's still no Prime Video app in sight.
The Surface Book's Weird Little Pause
Hands-on with Microsoft's new Surface Book at the store this week, and the weirdest part isn't the hinge, it's the few-second pause before the screen actually lets go.
The Only Part of the Future That Came True Was Scalping
Five days after Back to the Future Day, the hoverboards never showed up, but the scalped Pepsi Perfect bottles and the Nike Mag hype cycle sure did.
Forty Seconds and a Sold-Out Case of Pepsi Perfect
I missed the Pepsi Perfect flash sale by about forty seconds on Back to the Future Day, and then went and saw the Steve Jobs movie, which made for a weird week of tech nostalgia.
Fandango Face-Planted and I Still Barely Have Popcorn Money
Fandango, AMC, and Movietickets.com all buckled under the Force Awakens presale rush, and a few thoughts on why big-name sites keep faceplanting during predictable traffic spikes.
The Hoverboard Was On Google Maps Yesterday
A day-after take on Back to the Future Day: the one-day hoverboard icon Google Maps quietly added, and the eBay scalping frenzy around Pepsi Perfect bottles.
Fandango Fell Over And I Refreshed That Page A Hundred Times
Advance tickets for The Force Awakens went on sale today and promptly took down Fandango, AMC, and Movietickets.com. Some thoughts on predictable traffic spikes, plus Back to the Future Day is two days away.
Jailbroke the iPhone Again, Battery Regrets Already
Pangu dropped an untethered iOS 9 jailbreak this week, so I finally did it to my iPhone 6 - what I installed, what it cost me in battery life, and why the whole scene feels thinner than it used to.
The Bat Flip, and Also Twitter Just Fired 336 People
Twitter cut 336 jobs this week, two days before its live-event superpower was on full display during the Blue Jays bat flip game. Some thoughts on both, plus a Tweetdeck tangent.
Safe Harbor Just Sank and Nobody Told the Small Sites
The EU court just killed the Safe Harbor data-transfer framework, and it turns out that's not only a Facebook-sized company problem, it's a my-$5-DigitalOcean-droplet problem too.